SPANISH GRAND PRIX - FREE PRACTICE
Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima enjoyed a productive day
of free practice at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona
today ahead of Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix. The AT&T
Williams team-mates both ended the afternoon session inside
the top ten, Kazuki in fourth and Nico in seventh place. Under
temperate conditions, the pair covered a combined 117 laps
of the 4.655km track optimising set-up on their FW30s.
Nico Rosberg:
In the morning we tried something that really didn’t
work out so we had to change back for the afternoon session.
The car felt a lot better straight away, but we still have
a few balance issues that we need to try to sort out as it
doesn’t feel so great on the track. Circuit conditions
have changed a lot since we tested here last week, so we have
to have another look at the set-up before tomorrow.
Kazuki Nakajima:
It was a good day for us today. We tried some different
set-ups options in both sessions and have found a good direction
to take us into qualifying. We will be doing some more work
this evening, but we are well prepared for tomorrow.
Sam Michael, Technical Director:
It was a good afternoon session after we struggled
slightly this morning. We tried something new on Nico’s
car but it didn’t quite work out as we had wanted it
to so we reverted back to the original plan for the second
session, during which everything was fine. The engineers and
drivers worked through the usual programme today, including
preparing the two tyres and working out the best one for the
race. We experienced no reliability issues at all and we’ll
now work on our qualifying set-up for tomorrow.
AIR TEMP 18 - 210C 23 – 250C
TRACK TEMP 22 - 280C 34 - 390C
WEATHER Clear and sunny Clear and sunny
TOP 3
SESSION 1
K Raikkonen 1:20.649
F Massa 1:20.699
L Hamilton 1:21.192
SESSION 2
K Raikkonen 1:21.935
N Piquet 1:22.019
F Alonso 1:22.032
CHASSIS & ENGINE 1st SESSION 2nd SESSION
N ROSBERG FW30-03 / H286 1:23.003 (12th) 25 LAPS 1:22.266
(7th) 33 LAPS
K NAKAJIMA FW30-04 / H285 1:23.153 (15th) 24 LAPS 1:22.172
(4h) 35 LAPS
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